SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 79 out, this is Chapter 80 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

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Chapter 80: Only Enough Time to Pass By One Another

Ulyo snorted as the rest of the group headed out towards the ocean. "Oh well," she shrugged. "I'll let them have their fun just for today."

"Look, the stars are so beautiful." Lucy gushed that night, the group having retired back to the inn.

"I wonder if everyone else is training hard too." Levy mused.

"Maybe they're looking up at the stars right now, just like us." Wendy remarked.

"Has anyone seen Ulyo?" Carla asked, looking around.

"She's back in her room." Erza replied. "And I think Gray won't be able sleep tonight." She smirked, hearing the sharp 'clack' on Ulyo's door blot.

"Why's that?" Wendy was puzzled.

"Ulyo's got the seven-year itch." Erza grinned.

"Er, Ulyo?" Gray gaped, freezing when he heard the door lock. Slowing pivoting to face his girlfriend, he saw Ulyo's eye had glazed over. He backed off slowing as she stalked him akin to Juvia, before totally losing it when she pounced on him.

The laughter that erupted from the girls the next morning had Natsu asking them what was so funny as the utterly exhausted ice mage emerged from his shared room with Ulyo.

Erza managed to catch her breath and answered, "Don't worry Natsu. Gray's just tired. He'll be fine after some rest. Ulyo's got the seven-year itch."

Natsu's eyes widened as he burst out laughing at his best friend/rival. Gray shot him a withering glare, which only made him laugh harder. Happy made no effort to hide his amusement and spent the rest of the day teasing the poor ice wielder. Only Natsu's presence had prevented the drained ice mage from putting the Exceed into orbit.

"What?" Erza muttered, the group having returned from their trip to the Celestial World.

"Our precious training time…" Natsu moaned.

"We just spent one day in the Celestial Spirit World…" Happy whined.

"And three months went by in a flash." Gray sighed.

"That's why I told you guys not to go." Ulyo reminded.

"Even now, it's not too late." Erza declared. "We can train like hell these five days. All of you steel yourselves. We're not going to have time to sleep."

"Erza's fighting spirit is on fire." Gray gaped.

"She's not the only one." Ulyo pointed to Natsu.

"Sounds good to me." The said Dragon Slayer agreed. "I'm fired up about training like hell."

"A pigeon?" Lucy blinked, a pigeon landed on Erza's head.

"A note?" Ulyo retrieved the messenger pigeon and untied the piece of paper attached to its leg. "Dear Fairy Tail, come to the broken suspension bridge on the hill." She read. "The handwriting…" she breathed. "Could it be…"

"Let's check it out." Erza suggested.

"But it could be a trap." Levy reminded.

"We'll know what it is when we go." Erza insisted.

"What the…" Jet wondered, the ground shook when the group arrived at the suspension bridge.

"What's this?" Gray gasped when the bridge repaired itself.

"Lost Magic: Arc of Time…" Ulyo breathed. "It's just as I thought…"

"Ulyo, wait!" Gray called, the water mage dashing across the bridge.

"Thank you for coming, Fairy Tail." Jellal approached the group with the other two Crime Sorcière members.

"You haven't changed, Ulyo." Ultear told her sister. "Meldy and I broke him out of prison." She informed Erza before explaining their reason for creating Crime Sorcière. "But we didn't come here to introduce ourselves." She went to the main point of summoning the group to the forest. "We heard you're going to participate in the Grand Magic Games. We can't get near the arena. So there's one favour we would ask of you."

"Every year, when the games were held, we sensed a strange magical force." Jellal explained. "We want you to get to the bottom of it."

"Guilds around Fiore gather to participate in the Grand Magic Games, right?" Lucy reminded. "You'd expect one or two weird types of magic."

"That's what we thought at first." Jellal admitted. "But that magic is evil and somehow reminds me of Zeref. Maybe we're able to sense it because we've gotten too close to Zeref in the past."

"We want to know where that magic is coming from." Ultear added.

"That's like grabbing hold of a cloud." Ulyo noted. "But we'll give it a try. If there's strange magic present while all the Guilds in Fiore are assembled, we're at risk too."

"We'll pay your fees in advance." Ultear offered. "No, I don't mean money. My evolved Time Magic will raise the level of your abilities, just as I did to Ulyo seven years ago. 'Power up' has a ring to it, but that's not really what it is."

"Nee-san, you won't…" Ulyo gaped and sighed when the rest looked at her for an explanation. "Mages have something like a container that determines the limit of their magic power. Even if that container becomes empty, for example, the body automatically absorbs Eternanos from the air, and after a while, the container will become full again. But there's a part of the container mages possess that normally doesn't get used. It's something that everyone has. Latent ability: Second Origin."

"Time Ark will develop that container so you'll be able to use Second Origin like Ulyo." Ultear continued. "However, you will battle against unimaginably excruciating pain."

"Well, if you guys think your pain threshold isn't as high as mine…" Ulyo teased.

"Maybe you have to take your clothes off for the magic characters to be drawn." Gray noted, as he, Lucy and Ulyo watch Natsu go through the procedure.

"I don't think you have to worry about that." Ulyo reminded.

"Hang in there." Ultear urged. "Bringing out your latent ability is no simple matter.

"Is he going to be okay?" Lucy wondered.

"How painful is it?" Gray shivered.

"Well, if it's any consolation, it looks less painful when I first went through it." Ulyo replied.

"So," Ultear gave the couple a side-glance. "I hear you two have been quite… intimate for a while. Am I expecting any nephews or nieces?"

"Nee-san!" Ulyo exclaimed, flushing.

"Thanks to you, nee-san, no one can move right now." Ulyo joked as she and Erza stood guard outside the hut everyone was in.

"Fiancée, huh?" Erza mused, strolling along the shore after Crime Sorcière disappeared. "You always were lousy at lying. Nothing has changed since then…"

"Look, Erza." Happy called, drawing a heart with a jagged line straight through in the sand. "AYE!" the Exceed screamed, Erza sending him flying via a kick.

"Wow, Erza, I think he might have cleared the stratosphere." Ulyo joked.

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